Category: For Adults
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Helping our Girls Find God’s Will for Their Lives
By: Diana Bryant Even before our daughters were born, we all had dreams of what they would do with their lives. Of course, at that point, those dreams were based on what WE thought would be an excellent idea. They were our dreams, but it didn’t take long to discover…
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Intentional Relationships
By: Hannah Gorrell This season of life has lasted much longer than any of us hoped or expected. We are endlessly separated from our friends and loved ones in one sense or another. Sometimes we only see our friends through screens or plexiglass. It feels like one of the loneliest…
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A Love Affair of the Greatest Kind
By: Becky Gwartney In the most recent blog, Becky Gwartney asks a simple question, “How is your love relationship with God?” When my husband and I were dating, we couldn’t find enough time to be together. We lived in different states for a couple of months before our wedding, and…
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Fighting Your Battles
by Melinda Walker There are many issues we face as an adult and as a parent. Sometimes they come all at once, and we don’t know how to handle them, making us vulnerable. Given the task of separating our battles into two categories, major and minor, could you? How would…
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Drama-Buster Tool Belt
by Beth Bryant It’s often a struggle for moms, mentors, and youth workers to help their girls navigate the choppy waters of adolescent conflict (AKA drama). Here are a few tools for your drama-buster tool belt: 1. Be careful not to take your girl’s side in a conflict right away…
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Dealing With the Storms
by Rachel Bryant If you could go back and give your teenage self some advice, what would it be? I have been asked that question many times. My first thought is always something along the lines of don’t sweat the small stuff. That basically defines the things that felt like…
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Helping Our Girls Make Good Choices
by Diana Bryant We make dozens of choices each day. Usually the first one is whether to get up when the alarm goes off or hit the snooze button. It continues from there. What will I wear today? Will I curl my hair or just pull it back in a…
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Building Relationships with a Younger Generation
by Ana Batts Something happened to me when I hit my 30’s. My “littles” started elementary school. My middle schoolers started high school. Gone were the days of playgroups and ready-made relationships that formed while we watched our toddlers play. Suddenly building new relationships got hard. That’s when I realized…
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Conversations With Daughter/Mentee
If you have ever attended the first day of class in church camp or a women’s retreat of any kind you are familiar with ice breakers. These are activities you either love or hate. As an event planner I can tell you these aren’t on the schedule to fill time.…
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Creating an Atmosphere of Communication
Part 1: Prepare to communicate Part 2: Take steps to real communication A frustrated teenager and a defeated parent lean against opposite sides of a door after a series of verbal volleys ranging from sharp sarcasm to angry insults. Perhaps it’s not even an argument but rather the absence of…
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